Advice for medical students

1) There are cheap used medical textbooks on eBay. I was able to get a current edition Rohen atlas in perfect condition for $20. It is an easy way to add a few books to your collection with out breaking your wallet. .

2) If you get to chose your anatomy partners, chose wisely. I have been very fortunate but I have heard some horror stories. DO NOT become lab partners with someone you want to date or are currently dating!

3) There are some fantastic medical websites out there for histology and anatomy. There are links from several SDN threads and the SDN links page. Others can be found by using google. Some of them offer great self-tests and quizzes.

4) Board review books are a great help summarizing info before exams. I love the Chung anatomy review and the BRS physiology book.

5) Take everything a step at a time and enjoy yourself. It is an amazing experience.

source: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=95608 ; post #7

Advice for medical students

Color Atlas of Anatomy

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Although Netter’s classic drawings are helpful in understanding the layout of human body systems, I find that this Edition of Rohen is outstanding due to the excellent photography of professionally-dissected cadavers. It is much easier to identify complex structures on real cadavers in a Gross Anatomy lab using this reference; moreover, it is helpful as a tool to study when the cadaver lab is not open. Real bodies are much more difficult to analyze than idealized drawings–with this book, you can review before a laboratory excercise and have a more realistic expectation of what you are going to actually see.

People generally have different tastes in the types of atlases that they prefer to use, but I think that this one covers everything you would want to see.

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